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Digital Security, Ransomware, Cybercrime
Black Hat 2023: ‘Teenage’ AI not enough for cyberthreat intelligence
Current LLMs are just not mature enough for high-level tasks
Tony Anscombe • 12 Aug 2023
Ransomware
The downside of ‘debugging’ ransomware
The decision to release a ransomware decryptor involves a delicate balancing act between helping victims recover their data and alerting criminals to errors in their code
Cameron Camp and Aryeh Goretsky • 16 May 2022
$5.2 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions possibly tied to ransomware
Threat actors are increasingly using advanced tactics to obfuscate and launder their illicit gains, a report by the US Government finds
Amer Owaida • 19 Oct 2021
Ransomware cost US companies almost $21 billion in downtime in 2020
The victims lost an average of nine days to downtime and two-and-a-half months to investigations, an analysis of disclosed attacks shows
Amer Owaida • 11 Oct 2021
Ransomware, Business Security
Are you, the customer, the one paying the ransomware demand?
Ransomware payments may have greater implications than you thought – and not just for the companies that paid up
Tony Anscombe • 19 Aug 2021
Ransomware runs rampant, so how can you combat this threat?
A new paper explains how ransomware has become one of the top cyberthreats of the day and how your organization can avoid becoming the next victim
Ondrej Kubovič • 10 Aug 2021
Ransomware: To pay or not to pay? Legal or illegal? These are the questions …
Caught between a rock and a hard place, many ransomware victims cave in to extortion demands. Here’s what might change the calculus.
Tony Anscombe • 08 Jul 2021
Kaseya supply-chain attack: What we know so far
As news breaks about the supply-chain ransomware attack against Kaseya's IT management software, here’s what we know so far
Cameron Camp • 03 Jul 2021
5 essential things to do before ransomware strikes
By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail – here’s what you can do today to minimize the impact of a potential ransomware attack in the future
Cameron Camp • 18 Jun 2021